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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

Jitsuroku Andô Noboru kyôdô-den: Rekka

Japan

2002

96 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Takashi Miike

PROD Tsuneo Seto

SCR Shigenori Takechi

DP Kiyoshi Itô

CAST Riki Takeuchi, Sonny Chiba, Tetsurô Tanba, Ryôsuke Miki, Ken'ichi Endô

ED Yasushi Shimamura

MUSIC Joe Yamanaka

Synopsis

After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man’s killers. –IMDb

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Takashi Miike

A highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker, Takashi MIIKE was born on August 24, 1960 in Yao, Osaka, Japan. Under the guidance of renowned filmmaker Shohei IMAMURA (a two-time Palme d’Or winner at Cannes), Miike graduated from the Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film.

Miike’s first films were television productions, but he also began directing several high-quality direct-to-video releases. His theatrical debut came in 1995 with Shinjuku Triad Society, and its success gave him the freedom to work on more ambitious projects. One of the most successful Japanese directors currently working, he has also garnered a strong cult following in the West that is growing rapidly as more of his films become available in translated form on DVD.

Some of Miike’s most popular films include Audition, the Dead or Alive trilogy, Ichi the Killer, Gozu, Izo, and Big Bang Love, Juvenile A.

Miike has achieved international notoriety for depicting shocking scenes… read more

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Mr. Arkadin

1Dec11

The opening is one of Miike's signature best (a la Dead or Alive). Wish he would've pushed the weirdo/ero guro aspects of the film further though (like the amputated hands stuck around the killer's neck for instance; also some of the strange "meta"-editing that he does in the first third). Overall, better than I remembered, enough I think to crack Miike's top 10 (that ending really puts it over the top).

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Easton Dubois

8Jul11

Flower Travellin' Band = fucking awesome.

Leng Tch'e and rischka like this

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Human Form

6Jun11

My personal Miike favorite. The parking garage beat down is untouchable

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Hidden Behind the Screen

22Jul10

Really? No comments about this one? Some Miike's I like, some I don't care for, and some I hate. This is one I like, and that's saying alot. One of my favorite Yakuza films and deffinately one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard.

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A Decade with Takashi Miike. The Cinema of Gratitude: "Deadly Outlaw Rekka" (2002)

By Ben Sachs on April 12, 2010

Perhaps it’s best to start at the end. After a perfunctory showdown (a two-on-two variation on the end of Dead or Alive [Takashi Miike

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